Apprentices accepted into the program beginning will complete 2,000 hours of on-the-job training and 144 hours of classroom time at Southern Maine Community College. Skills students will learn include shellfish and seaweed production and management, operating a vessel and crop and animal husbandry.
Maine’s aquaculture industry needs skilled workers. A grant to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute aims to help, with money going toward apprenticeships and course development.
The standards, based on a collaboration between farmers and the educational community, aim to help ensure that Maine aquaculture businesses have the skills and training needed to compete in a global market.
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